Voice only, Most of the phone calls are quick for work, and video just makes thing more complicated. Teams for work calls only when screens need to be shared.
@Oldelvis before I retired, we had conferences using a variety of platforms (whatever I.T. said we had to use). Almost none of the engineers ever enabled the video (except by accident). Just the upper management and sales guys when we had to tolerate them. But we could still share screens for projects — without sharing our grizzled old visage.
Making a voice call (Gee, I never thought I’d ever say that!) is easier than video calls or text. Don’t have to be dressed properly (video) Get an answer quickly than texting sentence parts back and forth for ages. Just a quick I need to know now! Phone call!
I HAVE TO call someone? The only circumstances I can think of:
Medical emergency. I don’t think the 911 operators want to video chat.
Police emergency. If someone is breaking into my house, I would rather not take the time to set up video.
I’ve been arrested and need a lawyer. Video chat is probably not an option.
Something else I haven’t thought of. Nope, still not doing video.
We were experimenting with video conferencing 40 years ago. The bosses were disappointed that the video part kept failing. We tried to make the covers over the cameras hard to spot by using little circles of black sticky notes.
Voice only. That way they can’t see the faces I am making at them.
It’s bad enough they have to hear my voice, why torture them with the visual behind the voice?
Depends who I’m talking to.
Depends on who. Fiancé gets a video chat.
@PooltoyWolf oh that’s sweet… you’ll get over it soon enough.
@pmarin Huh?
Who has time to sit down for a video chat? On a voice call I can multitask.
I prefer not to call someone.
Voice only, Most of the phone calls are quick for work, and video just makes thing more complicated. Teams for work calls only when screens need to be shared.
@Oldelvis before I retired, we had conferences using a variety of platforms (whatever I.T. said we had to use). Almost none of the engineers ever enabled the video (except by accident). Just the upper management and sales guys when we had to tolerate them. But we could still share screens for projects — without sharing our grizzled old visage.
Where’s the option for “just text”
@smyle this!
I’m no entertainer to be parading myself to people I talk to
You “HAVE” to call someone
Whelp. Sucks for whatever situation is happening because that doesn’t happen
Making a voice call (Gee, I never thought I’d ever say that!) is easier than video calls or text. Don’t have to be dressed properly (video) Get an answer quickly than texting sentence parts back and forth for ages. Just a quick I need to know now! Phone
call!
Who am I calling?
My credit card customer support?
My FWB?
@kittykat9180 You know FWB too?
I HAVE TO call someone? The only circumstances I can think of:
We were experimenting with video conferencing 40 years ago. The bosses were disappointed that the video part kept failing. We tried to make the covers over the cameras hard to spot by using little circles of black sticky notes.
Unless I’m showing off a map to One-eyed Willy’s, voice-only will take up less bandwidth.